PREVEX-researcher and PI Morten Bøås will participate in a seminar on current dilemmas and challenges in regards to stabilisation initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Denmark. The seminar will take place today, 29 March at 12.30-17.00 at...
Preventing violent extremism: the Balkans
Photo: M1key.me/CC BY 2.0. Presented here are two recent PREVEX deliverables from Work Package 5, a working paper on the drivers of violent extremism in the Western Balkans, and a policy brief summarizing lessons learnt on the EU’s prevention measures...
NATO Workshop – Terrorism and Radicalisation
On 22 September 2021, PREVEX-researcher Luca Raineri from Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy will intervene as an expert on the Sahel at the NATO Defence College workshop in Rome on “Terrorism and Radicalisation”. Luca Raineri is attached...
Salafism as a Contested Concept
A new study by PREVEX-researcher Simeon Evstatiev just published by Brill in January 2021. The study regards Salafism as a contested concept that stirs up heated debates in Muslim circles as well as among Western Islamicists and social scientists....
Counter-terrorism in Bosnia
PREVEX recently published a policy brief on the strategies employed by external stakeholders such as the EU in the Balkans. Balkan Insight has picked up on the lessons learned in the brief and have written a very interesting analysis...
Training workshop on violent extremism in Mali
In October, 2020, the Alliance pour Refonder la Gouvernance (ARGA), a partner in the PREVEX-project, held a training workshop for parliamentary assistants on the prevention of violent extremism in Mali. Since 2012, the Malian state has been challenged...